, 1887-08-04

shortest route is by what is known rs
the Little Summit trail, distance nine
ty-four miles. The best trail is up
Kettle river, but it is somewhat longer
and the river has to be crossed n num-
ber of times. Another route is via the
same road that leads to the Salmon
river mines and on up the Okanogon
river to Osooyoos lake, distance from
Spokane about two hundred miles,
which can be travelled by wagon the
whole distance. From Osooyoos lake
in a northeastelly course is pack
trail twenty-one miles to the first
crossing OF Rock creek, and eight miles
up the creek above the crossing is the
present center of the Rock creek dis
trict.
The first two locations made, and at
present the principal ones in the dis
trict, are the Carriboo and the Emelia.
The vein was first discovered on the
Carriboo April 27, 1887, by AL MoKin-
ME, who was on a prospecting trip
with Fred Rice, Jack Burnham and
Edmond La Fever, and recorded by
McKinnie and Rice May 2. The
Emelia, paralleling the Carriboo on
the east, was recorded by Burnham
and La Fever, who disposed of one.
third interest TO A. w. Upton, of this
city. When making the locations it
was supposed that the vein ran with
the general formation or country rock,
which trends about north northeast to
south southwest, and is composed OF
slate with streaks of bastard quartz
running with it. After the locations
were made it was found that the true
gold-bearing quartz vein lay almost
due east and west, cutting the forma-
ton, and so extending across width
ways OF the locations instead of length
ways, as supposed. The main vein is
perpendicular, with the cross grain of
the slate forming the south wall, and
narrow seam OF porphyry, running
with the quartz, forms the north wall.
Since the true course has been ascer-
tanned the main vein il traceable two
miles on the surface and float from it
is found to the extent of five miles.
Locations have been made all of four
miles and over along the course of the
vein. a seventeen-foot shaft now
down in the main vein of the Carriboo
shows it to be from two to seven feet
wide OF hard, iron-stained and decom-
posed quartz that assays from $3.50
gold and 90 ounces silver to $3.50
gold and 500 ounces silver to the ton.
Much of the quartz is freely besprin-
kled with glittering gold. A few feet
south OF the main vein is another
strong vein seven to eight feet wide
that dips slightly to the north and is
supposed to be spur. 1t cuts across
the location at slight angle, as
though both veins would join just west
OF the location. As the veins come
nearer together at the west side of the
location the intervening space is filed
in with porphyry. A iourteen-foot
shaft is down on this vein, showing
the character and quality of the quartz
to be the same as that in the main
vein. Further south on the location,
extending more parallel with the main
vein, is another one, opened by II five
foot hole, that shows II two-foot vein
dipping more to the north than vein
No. 2, from which some samples of
quartz have been taken that assay as
high as $4,000 gold to the ton.
AhNlOGS NilC soubll Gnu INV VI tliN w
cation crops out still another vein that
has not as yet been opened. The
Carriboo owners have taken up
water right and have an excellent mill
site on their location.
On the Emelia location the first
work done was to run cross cut, to
find the walls, east and west to the
length of twenty feet. No walls being
found in that distance, u cut the same
length was made north and south and
neither wall found. In the center,
where these cuts cross one another, n
shaft has been sunk in all quartz to
the depth OF ten feet, and ut another
point on the location II shaft is down
on the location to the depth of thirty
feet containing quartz that assays $500
to $4,000 gold to the ton. / am told
that Phil O'Rourke and George A.
McAuley, Of Wardner, l. T., on re-
turning last week from IN inspection
trip to Rock creek, offered 100000
cash for the Emcla, which was re-
fused.
There are already over eighty quartz
locations made III the district. Chas.
Deitz and others are working placer
claims on the forks Of Rock creek with
very favorable results. 1t is said there
are plain evidences OF placer dlggings
being carried on quite extensively
about three miles below the Carriboo
over twenty-five years ago.
A British Columbia gold commits
sioner is now at the district laying out
a town and having wide right-of-way
cleared from the district to Osooyoos
lake, by which route it is understood IL
wagon road will be built at once. A
Canadian Pacific railroad contractor,
who was down looking over the district
last May, said the Canadian Pacific
railroad company intended building II
branch line from Shuswap lake, on
their main line, to Osooyoos lake, dis
tance 100 miles, to be completed this
year. This proposed line will pass the
Rock creek district fifteen miles TO the